Production Pipeline: Week 04 into 05

It's been a while since I've been into the 'studio' due to my acting but there's been a little progress. Let's do a run down shall we?

LARP Project:
Slime: Model - Polygon and Textures (complete!)
            Wiggle - nCloth (complete!)
            Squash and Stretch - Blend Shapes [have one that shows Slime dissolve] (starting this week)
            Bubbles - Particles (revisit texture and needed to be added to model)
            Fire and Smoke - Particles and Fluids (starting this week)
            Animation - (starting soon)
            Render - (starting soon)
Mimic: Model - Polygon and Textures (nearly complete [requires grouping])
             Tongue - Model (redoing this week) and Rig (rig needs to be tweaked)
             Saliva/Spit - Particles (starting this week)
             Lid/Box animation/rig - Rig (starting this week)
             Animation - (starting soon)
             Render - (starting soon)
Bamboo Pole: Model - Polygons and Textures (revisit if need be)
                        Render - (starting soon)
Fireball: Fireball - Particles (revisit if need be)
               Smoke - Fluid Effects (revisit)
               Animation - (starting soon)
               Render - (starting soon)
Winged Potion: Model - Glass (complete!), Wings (starting this week)
                          Magic Potion - Fluids [or possibly just model and animate] (starting this week)
                          Glitter - Particles (starting this week)
                          Animation - (starting soon)
                          Render - (starting soon)
Environment: Model - Paint Effects (revisit textures for coherency), Dirt (revisit texture)
                       Sky - Fluid Effects (revisit texture)
                       Animation - (starting soon)
                       Render - (separate passes to start soon)
Menu Tab/Hit Point/other 2D effects: (starting soon)
Music/Sound Effects: (starting soon)
Green Screen/Video Editing: (starting soon)

As you can see, there's a lot of stuff to do before week 9. Very ambitious project but by taking off just a little bit at a time it'll be manageable. Week 5 will see the completion of the potion, the completion of the Mimic's tongue (put into model), all fire/smoke particles, blend shape Slime, saliva/spit, Box Rig (if any), and environmental pieces. In addition, I need to redo my storyboard and animatic. Therefore, if any thing aforementioned is not finished due to the animatic and storyboard I wont consider myself behind for the week because the planning stage is still underdeveloped and that will account for any last changes to the piece anyway. By week 6, animating key frames should start and renders will begin week 7.

Until next time! - Tex